The Dan Bongino Show - This Is Going To End Badly (Ep. 2557)

Episode Date: July 21, 2026

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All America all the time. Sit down, buckle up, and get ready for the Dan Bongino show. So right after yesterday's show, Donald Trump, it's out the true social post, and he basically exposes the op I told you about yesterday. Once you recognize and see the op with open eyeballs, clockwork are in style, little eye openers in there, you can never unsee it, ever. The op is so clear. this globalist anti-American movement will use any vehicle to pierce the minds of Americans.

You're seeing it in the expose yesterday about Cuba. Cuba's running info ops in the United States. Yeah, of course. They hate the United States. Anything they can do to dismantle this place from the inside they will do. The thing is you vaccinate yourself against the op once you see it. You do. But the difference is this vaccine actually works. This one actually works. It's amazing. This one works. Once you see it, you're inoculated.

I'll show you what I mean coming up. Also, we got a great interview today. You know, one of the things about American history I love, and I know nobody liked history classes in school, you should because the story of the American Revolution is a Netflix special for the ages. The revolutionary generation folks were legit badasses. They took on the British Empire like a thousand to one odds. Guerrilla warfare, all kinds, they were badasses.

I got a guest coming up in the next hour you're going to love from Hillsdale about just this topic. About 15, 20 minutes the interview, I promise it's worth your time. Big show for you today. I'm going to show you the op. Trump gets it, called it out yesterday. Hey, if you're still starting your day with that watered down, brown water, garbage coffee. throw it out, get rid of it, you're doing it wrong. Every morning I get my coffee from Blackout Coffee.

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Once you make the switch, you're not going back. Coffee.com slash Bongino. Thank you, Blackout Coffee. Let's go. I told you about the op yesterday, how the very same people pushing for the international criminal court of tyrants to arrest Donald Trump the second he leaves office and travels outside of the United States. The same people are pushing to arrest Netanyahu too because they know the second they mention the Jews or Israel that a bunch of people go, oh, I love the ICC. if the ICC is going to arrest you too. Why do you think?

I saw this, I don't even know if it was a, I was these radio hosts were argument back and forth about Donald Trump. And the guy's like, you're attacking Donald Trump for being a failure? The guy's a billionaire who's the president of the United States. You spreadsheet, you look like an idiot. There are, every businessman's had some failures along the way.

Hell, I wrote a whole book about stumbling. You think anyone's had a linear line up to success without ever stumbling one time. Folks, BS. We talk about George Washington later. George Washington, when he was fighting for the British, for the British, he actually surrendered at Fort Necessity. Lincoln had a ton of failures.

Don't tell me about that. Tell me about where they ended in the net present value. Trump gets it. Here he is putting up on true social yesterday about this ridiculous call to use the international criminal court warrants to start arresting diplomats at the U.S. in New York like Netanyahu. Benjamin Netanyahu will not be arrested

in any way, shape, or form while in the United States of America. He's fighting against the Islamic Republic of Iran, which recently killed 52,000 innocent protesters and spent the last 47 years killing American soldiers and others. Yes, Mr. President. The only ones that should be arrested

are the people that led Iran into this unprecedented spiral of death and destruction, something that should have been dealt with years ago by previous presidents. indeed sir indeed folks this is not going to end well i'm title today's show that sometimes i i'm not the best i like to do the titles to the show myself those come out of the the genesis of the title is in dan bonjino's early morning brain i am not the best guy of titles for sure but i like to control everything myself a little bit of a control freak in that respect that did it that was my point

Thank you, Justin. We did not plan this. Justin's like, yeah, this one came through early at 2.30, which is a little bit after I left the office, because I do some show prep afterwards. This title was so obvious to me, because I'm telling you, folks, this is not going to end well. This side pushing for the international criminal court

to arrest everyone in the Trump administration, including the president and his family, to arrest Netanyahu. They are obsessed with the violent internal takedown of America, and they will do anything they can to sci-op you into taking part of it in it, even if it involves a destruction and burning down of your own community. They don't care. The op is real and it's transparent.

You saw it again yesterday. Their obsession with violence on the left is it is a growing metastasizing pancreatic stage five cancer that is going to kill the host if we don't intercept this early. and to the Democrats out there who were still logical and have a compass true north. The whole Democrat party hasn't been corrupted yet, but it's getting close. Even listen to guys like Van Jones.

Van Jones is out there saying this is really dangerous. You've got Federman out there. This is really dangerous. Did we ever play that Federman thing yesterday? I don't think we did, right? Do we try to pull that for the end of the show. Hold on. I'm going to take a note here.

Sorry, guys, but this is a live show and I don't want to forget. Federman. Federman's thinking about leaving the Democrat party. To the Democrats out there who are still saying, we need you. We're cleaning up, you know, infiltrations in our party by bad actors. You guys have to do the same. I mean, it's gotten to the point now where it's become almost like farcical. They're just love affair with violence.

Did you see this ridiculous clip with this? I don't know what he is. Is he like an influencer? Like I hate that term. but this Harry Sisson, you guys know Harry Sisson? I mean, if there's any guy out there who epitomizes like the beta male, it's this guy Harry Sisson, right? I know, I wish I could repeat that, but you can see where he's going with that.

And he's on Don Lemon Show, another, like total, like, non-alpha male. And Harry Sisson's like, I thought this was AI. I saw an on X. He's like, yeah, I want to beat up Steve Miller or box. What? Are you people insane? You guys on the left, you've got to put down the crack rocks. It's no good.

There was that song of New York. Your mama's on crack rock. It's bad. Please put down drugs. Remember the Nancy Reagan thing? This is your brain on drugs. Put the crack rock down. This is an actual clip.

He wants to box people now. Folks, please on the left, stop being stupid. Stupid's a choice. You don't have to make that. choice. Check this out. I've suggested to people before in interviews. I'm like, I want to fight them. I think like to fight them. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like if Stephen Miller would agree or one of the Trump children or like anybody in the administration, I want to fight them. God, you know what? That I would go paid to see on the White House lawn. That's what I'm saying. In the UFC.

Why are we doing the UFC event? Why don't we just settle some political beef? I'll take anybody in the white. I box for four years. And if they want to, I'd get back into training camp, get in the best shape of my life and go fight one of them. I would do it too. Yeah. That's what I feel like there's so many people that would do it. This is not funny. This is not a funny topic.

I really am. I'm really sorry. This is not funny. It's a little. Okay. You're right. It's actually, you want to see something here.

I'm going to read this. This is my handwritten notes. Well, the lights kind of wash them out. The liberal love affair. I take very few notes, but little like bullet points. I have liberal love affair with violence is not funny.

I'm telling you. It literally says sometimes it's funny. Then Muddly's in the chat. Maybe he should fight like he wants to fight anyone. What about Mark Wayne Mullen? Isn't he like a UFC fighter or something like that? Wasn't Mark Wayne Moll like an MMA guy? You don't you see how stupid this is?

Then they're going to go, well, well, I'll get my guy. I'll pay like Brock Lezor. Do you get how dumbness is? The escalating stupidity of violence and politics? Do you even mention it is beyond absurd? Because folks, it has serious real world consequences. This is where I'm, this is why I say like, it's not funny, but this, but this guy. You see that guy?

The guy couldn't fight his way out of like a soaking wet paper bag at like Edward's supermarket. I'd be struggling. It's a serious problem. We saw it again yesterday. The left, unlike the right, we do not accept. There is not a single, credible, right-wing. MAGA, libertarian Republican out there on any of these cable news or anyone with an audience out there saying, I support the violent overthrow of the United States.

There's just not. There are people saying it and they're isolated out of the movement because we understand the escalating stupidity of violence. Well, I'll get Mark Wayne Mullen. Well, I'll go get this guy. I got this former MMA guy who's all of a sudden hates the Jews and everything too. Nobody's going to win. Everybody dies in the end.

That's why we don't do it that way. That's why we don't do our politics internally that way. It was this hard to understand? Look what happened yesterday up at the FBI New York field office at 26 Fed. Some lunatic, again, according to the information we have now, in the early information that's come out from the FBI briefing, spouting anti-American anti-ice nonsense, goes with this incendiary,

probably just gasoline, there's some gas or whatever it is, and lights it on fire, has a bunch of weapons in a backpack. This has real-world consequences. You can hear the woman in the background. I can't believe this is happening. This is, this is,

how many incidences of left-wing violence, incidents are you going to have, of left-wing violence, before you, in unanimity, call this stuff out, say, hey, guys, like enough's enough. Maybe it's time to seek out, I can't believe him saying it's like a Van Jones or Federman and go,

what are we doing wrong here? Folks, this is a serious, serious problem. This never ever ends well. Once you put the guillotine in the plaza and start screaming off with their heads, it's your head next. And they always justify it. That's the problem.

They always justify it. I saw last night, Scott Jennings was on CNN, debating some liberal again. And the liberal, it's always, but what about Trump? What about it? They can never, ever stay on topic and talk about the growing metastasizing stage five pancreatic cancer of left-wing violence and where this goes. Remember, folks, it escalates. The thing about the truth is, I want you to always remember this, there's always an endpoint.

You can debate mathematics and arithmetic all you want. The bottom line is in the end, six plus six is going to equal 12. And you arguing otherwise is only going to make you look like a fool. When you debate politics and use logic and reason, there is always an end game. When you use violence as a way to solve your problems like the left is now embraced, I can't emphasize this enough. There is an escalating ladder that's perpetual. It never stops.

There's no last rung. Well, I'm going to get my guy. Well, I'm going to get my guy. Reminds me when I was growing up in Glendale, Queens. and like everybody had their own mini little gangs. Dude, it wasn't like Compton. I don't want to exaggerate. But people got into a lot of street fights.

Everybody did. It happened. You know, it was like a New York thing. I'm going to go get my brother. I'm going to get my cousin. Well, I'm going to get Tony. We had this tough guy in a neighbor. This guy, Chris, he used to walk around.

I'm so old. He used to have a member of Boombox. He carried this like 20 pound boombox on his shoulder. Everybody was afraid of this guy. Everyone. I'm going to go get Chris. Oh. That's the way this works.

That's why it's a fool's errand. Does the left not understand this? Here's what I mean. Watch this lady try to excuse this away. And Scott Jennings uses simple logic on her. Like you had a bunch of options to dispute ICE policies, an ice facility in that building too. You could vote a different way, whatever.

Organize a pack, volunteer, run for office. Instead, you're like, no, let's just burn the building down. And that makes sense to you? The answer is if you're a leftist, it does. Check this out. Is it possible that is the actions of ICE that have people talking like this, not just getting messaging from the Democrats, but seeing what's happening in their communities? So if you believe that a government agency is doing something that you don't like and your choices are, A, cast a vote, B, use your words, or C, go set off an incendiary device at the federal building in New York City and you pick C, there's no justification for this. There's no rationalization of it, and it's patently ridiculous if that is what anybody's going to argue tonight.

I love that line. Thank you, Scott. Use your big boy words. You can do that. You're allowed in a republic to object to ICBP, ERO, DHS policy, and immigration. And I'm allowed to disagree with you. And we argue out our points. You use logic and reason.

And hopefully, hopefully in a constitutional. Republican representative democracy, which we're not a direct democracy, we get to a mutual kind of landing space. I lose a little, you lose a little, you lose a little, I gain a little, you gain a little. That's how a representative democracy works. Not with the left. The left can't use their big boy words because they don't have them. When you divorce yourself from logic and reason and the path of logic and reason, and your end

game is no end game at all other than death and destruction, which is what we're, worries me. Violence is your only tool. It's your only tool. I'm not trying to wax poetic. I'm telling you the truth. When you don't have the laws of logic and reason on your side, you will never get to an end point where anybody wins because everything you're saying is bullshit. You're just making it up. You have divorced yourself from logic. So the only way to take people's liberty and freedom away is to steal it. And the only way you're going to get them to forfeited away by stealing it is through violence. Another video there.

I mean, this is how many times are we going to see this? Multiple assassination attempts. Charlie Kirk, Steve Scalise, Antifa, BLM. How many times are we going to see this? Do you need another reminder of where this goes? And I'm not going to accept, and you shouldn't either. It's both sides. It's not both sides.

It's not both sides. Folks, this is what I mean, too. You get apologists. for the death to America crowd. They love violence against America and American facilities like 26 Fed. They do. You see it everywhere.

They will apologize for any act of violence against the greatest freedom and liberty country in the history of sentient beings. As long as the violence is directed against a subset of people in America who believe in our founding documents and freedom and liberty, that violence is excused.

It doesn't matter who is the genesis of that violence. Terrorists, Islamo fanatics, it doesn't matter. The unholy alliance of progressive communists and Islamo fanatics, I talked about yesterday, had to David Harowitz for the term, that unholy alliance is unbroken until America falls apart, then they'll fight each other. Here's an interview yesterday on Pierce Morgan's show with another lunatic, this Max Blumenthal.

He's asked a simple question. Yeah, listen, I'm not getting to peers. Do you love peers or not? People, you know, some people like me, hate me, whatever. You just ask a pretty simple question. He's like, hey, man, is there anything negative you can say about the Iranian regime? Justin, I have a couple of negative things. The whole, like, VB, B, IED attacks and war theaters in the Middle East,

the multiple terror attacks, the taking of our embassy, Beirut, the Marine barracks, the mass killing of innocent civilians. That's a good one. I didn't want to leave that one out. The imprisonment torture of Iranian freedom fighters. There's a couple right there, just off the top of my head, folks. I don't know, four or five. I promise you, if you're putting like chat GPT or Gemini or something like that,

are you putting there, tell us some bad things the Iranian regime. Even the liberal woke ones will tell you, there's a couple bad things there. Not Max Blument, though. He thinks it's like a trick question. He really doesn't think that. Watch him play word games. We had to fast forward to this. These are some, we actually leave like the jump in.

I promise you you're not missing anything. It's just a BS back and forth. Because he can't think of anything bad. Because as long as the violence is directed at Americans, apologists will apologize for it. Check this out. Just give me one bad thing about the Iranian regime. I will, but let me just say that I,

we have filed a lawsuit. Just one bad thing. We have filed a lawsuit against the, The Department of Homeland Security, Genev Munis, is leading this lawsuit for the Arab-American anti-discrimination committee. Okay, but just to answer my question. And after that lawsuit was filed my first time. Just one bad thing.

I'm not a big kebab guy, but the kebab is great. Iranians are having a robust debate and it's up to us to leave them alone. Thanks. Just one more time. Give me one bad thing about the Iranian regime. I just did. What was it? I mean, what kind of game is this that one bad thing about Iran?

Again, Iran is not our enemy. Where I'm supposed to say one bad thing about them. One? Only want one. Oh, are you going to get one? Do I get one? Can you think about one bad thing about phone hacking? You couldn't say one?

I think viewers could you even call the I mean this is it you wouldn't even call the UK regime. I gave you multiple chances. You couldn't think of a single bad thing you live under a regime. You live under a regime. You're going to leave it there.

Would you call the UK regime? This is the craziest interview I've seen in weeks. You can't name one bit. Folks, I love America. 250 years, freedom, liberty and kicking ass. I am passionate about this country. You ask me, A, is America ever done a? Is America ever done a bad thing?

Yeah, yeah, we have Jim Crow, slavery. I mean, we've got stains too. We've got, we've had things we've had to clean up. Three-fifths compromise. I mean, we've had a ton of bad things. But we try to fix them and get to an endpoint, correct? That's what makes us different. The Iranians have never fixed anything.

They have the number one foamy finger. Death to America, kill the infidels. It's never changed. It said the same thing for as long as the, you know, there's been a Persian empire. They do you have kebabs. Tell me something bad about phone hacking. Your data is compromised.

There you go. It's not hard. Now, there you go. Do you go? Do the same thing? Do you see what I'm talking about? They will apologize. Listen to me. Here is the takeaway.

The unholy alliance people. Progressive communists, the same thing. They're the same thing. And the Islamo fanatics. And the left-wing media provides cover for them. Have one goal to take down the United States by any means necessary. As long as the violence works for them to destabilize the United States, whether it's from the Iranians or BLM, they will apologize for it and excuse it because

it meets their end goal, which is very simple, the destruction of the greatest country on earth. That's it. That's it. And they will use any vehicle to get there. Communism, Nazism, they don't care. They won't apologize for Nazis. They just ran a guy in Maine. went one a primary with a freaking nazi tattoo are you again put the crack rock down it's really bad for you put it down friends don't let friends do crack rock don't do the crack rock i used to be a cop in a seven fire precinct two o'clock in the morning it'd be 30 degrees you'd see the dude out there on crack rock he'd be like man that guy's got three legs that's not three legs he's naked it's two in the morning it's 20 What is he?

You'd have to put this guy in EDPM, emotionally disturbed person. Don't do the crack rock. You can't find one negative thing about the arena. You can, you just don't want to, because they're useful for you. Violence against us. Once you see the op, you'll never unsee it. I told you, that's why President Trump, he's, President Trump is a 10x smarter than these other idiots. He knows exactly what they're doing with the international criminal court using the Netanyahu red hair.

Nettanyahu. Once you mention the Jews in Israel, they don't really care. That's just a tool for them. All right, quick break, and I want to show you this, you want to see what a liberal meltdown looks like. Why are these people so emotionally unstable and why do they always look like this? Did you see the pronoun guy, the video in the New York posing? I'm not unnecessarily teasing this. Am I?

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some South and Central American influence operations. And by the way, you may say, isn't all of this stuff illegal? If you register through FARA, this foreign agent registration act, you know, it's not illegal to lobby the United States government. What they're talking about, President Trump, is subterfuge, where this stuff isn't announced. It's like adjut prop. This is what you get. You get a bunch of people who just these outbursts you're seeing over and over again. There's this confrontation on this campus here with this guy who believes he's been misgendered. Did you see this video? It's gone viral. Check this out. What's the problem?

Why do you let those kids get away with this? They are not supposed to be here. If you don't lower your voice, I am going to put handcuffs on you and I'm going to take you to a Baker Act facility. You lower your voice. Try it. Are you threatening me? Can we get another unit to deal with, um, Jay Lee here? He is having a breakdown. Say!

Say! Just say it! What'd you say? He's got to, like, compress that. I think I lost, like, my hearing of this one. No, please. You're about to get sprayed. No, just let me alone.

Leave me alone. What else with the blue hand? Leave me alone, please. Okay, are you going to calm down? I want to be. No, no, it's too late. It's too late now. He's going to be taken away.

Oh my gosh. It's taken. I just want to get away from him. Someone called Harry Sissor. Say! Say! She! She!

She! Stop mask. Just say she! me just say she please step in watch it here all right why are these people so angry why are these people so hang you know last night i have um the paramount app and the app for some reason wasn't working on my samsung tv so i had been you guys watched landman i was into season three and the app broke like six months ago or so. Right before I came back on the year.

And I just kind of gave up, not because I don't like the show, but the app just wasn't working. And I just forget, Muttley's are going crazy in the chat. I forgot. So we ran out of shows to watch, my wife and I. So last night, she's like, hey, give the Paramount app a shot. I promise this is going somewhere. And Landman worked.

So we started watching it. And I just saw the episode, you know the one I'm talking about, where Billy Bob Dorton's, yes, the roommate in college. and it's the same thing. The roommate is trans. It's like, this is my safe space. The fact that that aired on TV, like Taylor Sherrod is balls of steel,

put that out there. But why are they so angry? I hate asking questions I don't have the answer to. In this case, I didn't. I have the answer. I need to jump ahead a little bit. Hold AOC for a second. The Don Lemon, the Nazi comparison.

This is why. It's not hard to figure out. Why are these people so angry? The answer is they've been fed a bunch of slop down their throats like Ipecaccerif. Yep, they don't throw up. It's like they enjoy it. They're like, man, you're fighting the Nazis, the fascists, the bad guys, the totalitarians. You know, Donald Trump's a racist, bigot, fascist, Nazi.

When you're told that every single day, folks, it's not hard to understand while people who do no homework on any of those statements actually believe this and want to burn down 26 Fed. start screaming. Hey! What the, what the, what's that? That is a totally irrational response from what appears to be an adult. Well, you wouldn't be rational either

if you thought you were living amongst Nazi racist fascists. Here's a clip from the Don Lemon Show. Exactly. They just ran a guy in Maine who had an actual Nazi tattoo. You would think they would be like, hey, we got a problem.

We got to clean this up? Nope. This is pure projection right here. Check this out. I think that once Donald Trump has gone, it's the end of MAGA. I don't know if it's, the end of that sort of attitude. I mean, the MAGA is the closest thing to the modern version

of the Nazi party. This is America's version. It's the closest thing without the Holocaust and all that stuff. That sort of mindset. That's what MAGA is because most intelligent people or logical people, when they get new information and if that information is negative or not factual, then they change their minds. Oh, well, I wish I had known better. And now that I have this information, then I can readjust. No matter what you, no matter how many facts and how much information

you give them, you give them about this presidency, about the policies, they don't change their minds because they're really not voting for the price of eggs. They're voting for white supremacy. They're voting for power.

They're voting to have a preeminent voice. They're afraid of, they've been co-opted by many people in their reprimand. Republican Party and Donald Trump to think that their failures are due to something else, the other, the black person, the woman, the Latino, the immigrant, the migrant. That person is taking your job. That person is the reason that you don't have the financial or career success that you think

that you should have. It's because of them. We want to take our country back. That's what MAGA is. Holy Moses, you believe the inversion of logic. Folks, did you catch what he said? the end it's the most important part the nazi shit we've all heard before i don't want to hear it ever again from a leftist we have done yeoman's work cleaning up impostors in our movement the last six months i've

dedicated my life to it it's not an easy conversation to have because some people fake it really well so you can cut that bullshit right out you just ran nazi tattoo guy and he won your primary The only reason you got rid of him is because this polling was that. Did you catch at the end? He's like to write, these MAGA people, they do the othering. Like your financial failures are the cause of others and they create victims. Are you, again, brother, put the crack pipe down. That is the founding ideology of modern progressive liberalism.

is victim ideology. The trans guy, I don't have any right. What rights? You're in a college in the middle of the most, one of the most prosperous states in the union, Florida. What are you talking about? We played that video a couple weeks ago where those ladies interview the woman,

she's like, I'm black and I'm gay and I have no rights. They're like, what rights don't you have? Couldn't name one. Couldn't name one. That is the founding ideology of the modern progressive liberal. movement is you're a victim of someone and you see how they totally inverted we're the we're the exact opposite of that we're going to talk to a dr bill coming up in a little bit about how this was a revolutionary idea we were founded on the idea that all men are created equal with inalienable rights

this was a revolutionary they don't believe in any of that folks and they're brand ambassadors in this influencer era right now, you have these brand ambassadors where people who have no life skills whatsoever. I'm not getting in it, because I'm a capitalist, and if, you know, Jano Bag of Donuts wants to go out on Instagram

and become famous for being Jaino Bag of Donuts, really, I'm not good for you. If that's what the market demands, go for it. But a lot of companies have latched onto this influencer culture we'll look like, hey, I have this handbag, whatever, Gucci, or whatever it may be, we'll pay you to be a brand ambassador. Like, for what? I don't understand, like, how that appeals to people.

What do I care if, you know, Janie Bag of Donuts is good looking on Instagram, wears a bag, like, who gives a shit? But it works. The brand ambassadors for the left are the exact same. They have no life skills, no critical thinking skills at all, and suckers on the left who all have, the, you know, the green hair and all this stuff, they fall for this stuff. Here's a perfect example of what I'm talking about.

The very same left, like the Don Lemons and others, that'll criticize some guy wearing a sombrero on Cinco de Mayo for cultural appropriate. They'll lose their minds. I can't believe. You're culturally, what a racist. The very same zeros and dipshits that'll do that, have no problem with Alexandria O'Cost. Cortez. I don't know if you caught this yesterday. On her now, what, 15th different accent? Now she's from the South. And here's the kicker. You guys, you missed this yesterday.

If you saw this on cable news, let's see who in the chat, catch it. Me and Justin both missed it until we didn't. I played this clip three, four times. At the end, we were like, wait, there's something in this that's especially appealing to the people who dance and act and bullshit people for a living. Listen to AOC, the Queen of the Bullshitters, who's now faking her, again, 15th or 20th accent. She's Southern now. You're going to see her at the Iron Bowl this year or something. I think it's in Tuscaloosa.

Check this out. We cannot afford to leave Tennessee behind. We cannot afford to leave Kentucky behind, Alabama behind, Mississippi behind, Georgia behind, South Carolina behind. I'm sorry, I'm watching the chat to see who caught it? No. What is it? What is it? Someone's got to catch this.

We got, we have 50,000 people here. Someone catch it. I can only give it a, no, I can't believe it. We just caught it at the end. All right, I'll give it to you. That's what I'm here for. Who is she campaigning for? Justin, you want to help him out?

Yes, yes. Justin J. Pearson, dancing guy. Did you, you look, I swear I missed it. I'm with you guys. You've only seen it once. I had to see it two or three times because you get so distracted by the horrendous rendition of a Southern accent. It's not even good.

It's not even good. I always tell you I love the South, but I never fake the funk. How many times, that's within end. How many times have I said to you all, I ask respectfully to my Southern brothers and sisters because I love you so much, please take me in as your adopted son. I don't fake a Southern accent. I'm a Yankee. She's out there campaigning.

for dancing guy, Justin J. Pearson. This guy. While doing the fake Southern accent. Folks, you live in Tennessee, please don't tell me you're getting played by this. I know you're not. I love Tennessee. Been there many times.

There is no way. Morgan Mullen, help us out. There is no, write a song about this or something. There is no way you're being taken by this bullshit act. When we saw it, I'm like, this can't be. Is this the dancing guy? I had to look it up twice just to be sure, Justin J. Pearson. Folks, why? Given that's stupid we know is a choice, correct? With the advent and explosion of AI, I can't say this enough. If you're an 85 IQ person, okay, and you work hard, God loves you

like anyone else. You've got other gifts. Not everything is your intelligence quotient. But whereas you can't overcome a strength deficit, I mean, you can use robotics and tools. However, if you're at, you're kind of stuck, you can overcome an intelligence deficit. You're given a surrogate brain with the explosion in AI. In other words, what I'm getting at is there is no reason to be stupid. If you want to go farm with a hoe and not mechanical,

you're going to take 2,000 times as long as a farmer with technology. tools. You have to go spend money. A lot of these open source models are just free. There's no excuse to be stupid anymore. You can go and look this stuff up. But when you have brand ambassadors and influencers, not leaders like AOC and dancing guy, Justin Pearson, and you choose them, you've chosen the road of stupid. And that's how you get things like this. Nate Friedman went out and did a man on the street interview and he asked this socialist DSA guy, like, hey man, give us your elevators. or pitch for socialism. You know, you got two floors to go.

Someone's stuck in the elevator with you. It's a business term. And you got to sell me in a minute or two between floors. Give me your pitch for socialism. This may be the single dumbest explanation for socialism. The guy doesn't even know or is faking, not knowing, that socialism and socializing are not the same thing. Bro, you saw it, right?

Justin's laughing. He thinks it's the same. worry. Stupid is a choice. You don't have to be stupid. You don't have to follow influencers and brand ambassadors like AOC and dancing guy. You can do your own homework. Yeah, you think I'm making this up? Watch this yourself. More than half of young Americans now prefer socialism over capitalism. So if you can look into the camera and give a 30 second elevator pitch on why socialism is better than capitalism. Community. Are you tired of sitting alone and being by yourself and have no one to talk to? be a socialist. It's all about community. It's about literally sitting down and having coffee

with a random stranger and talking to them, talking about the game. Hell, I have hugged more strangers in this past summer because of the Knicks game, because of the World Cup, because socialism works. It ain't scary word. It ain't me taking your house. It's about me making sure your house remains in your hands and some million doesn't take it from you. That's it. That's not exactly what socialism is, but you can understand why it sounds attractive. The pitch is simple. I'm going to stop your rent from going up. I'm going to protect you from the greedy landlords and I'm going to keep you in your home. Yet it's under the socialist Mamdani where the median rent in New York City just hit an all-time high of nearly $5,300 a month. This is how it happens. First,

Momdani freezes the rent for nearly a million apartments. That means the landlord is legally blocked from raising prices, even if there's repairs or higher taxes. So some landlords can't afford to maintain the apartment. Then comes the final step. The government takes control and they call it social housing. But it just means the state uses the crisis it helped create as the excuse to take private property away from the owner. The most important thing is that in his pitch, he doesn't need any facts about socialism

being better, which comes in handy because it's never worked. Yes! Yes! The gifts of socialism, of course we use that term laughingly. one of them is the stupid choice, the stupid exit on the highway. This guy can just look it up, but he doesn't because he follows influencer brand ambassadors

like AOC and Mom Dami who go out there and say things like, buy this bag and inside the bag is a pile of dog shit. And people buy it anywhere like ignore the smell. You can just look it up. Mamdani, we need more rent control. Just put in a freaking surrogate brain AI. Has this actually worked? anywhere? If a person who owns property can't get a return on the property, why would he put

money into the property? Only idiots will explain that away by, well, we get to socialize and hang out like a Knicks game. That's socialism. And I love how he uses the word literally, the idiot explaining socialism when he's really explaining socializing. He's like, it literally means I can hang out with people. Yeah, you will. I take that back. He's correct. Justin's like, you just refuted your own point. No, I didn't. You do get to hang out with people. In a gulag, you go get hung up, you get, you're strung up behind your back.

They like cut your fingers off and stuff like that. You get to hang out with people. It's just not at the Knicks game. It's not at the next. And the game ain't fun. It's like, how many digits can be cut off before he bleeds to death? It's like, so, why do you really? One of the greatest gifts of socialism is the stupid ramp off the highway.

It's like, oh, no, no. I promise I'm going to continue. The mask was great for everyone. It showed you who the morons were. The problem with socialism is they hide among us like ninjas. It's like until you actually put a mic in front of them, you don't know who the idiots are. You thought I was going there, didn't you?

I know. Some of you are laughing to P-1s. You know me with the men. The mask was the greatest gift to anyone. It was. It was. It showed you instantly who the stupid people were, right? When we were like, after the initial panic were off,

I saw the mask I knew to cross the street. I didn't want to be infected. If they had a stupid virus, like some preon, I didn't want it. So I instantly crossed the street again with a mascot. Justin saw a woman in a convertible with a mascot. Man, I don't know how she breathed. How'd she get air? And that mask has got her sealed off.

Folks, people like AOC, influencer politicians, brand managers and brand ambassador politicians, who were ambassadors for the brand of socialism and tyranny. A lot of them are doing this to you intentionally. I'm not sure Justin Pearson dancing guy is. He doesn't seem too bright based on some of his arguments. AOC either, but Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are not stupid. This is not a compliment, folks, by the way.

Don't take it that way. The people who are brand ambassadors for communism, socialism, and tyranny fall in two camps, deliberately misleading. people through propaganda. And second, the stupid ones who just can't do any homework or don't want to because they're just lazy and stupid. AOC's probably in the latter camp. But there is a very serious, listen to me, please, like, miss a lock in, this is really critical. There are things I can say and things I can't say. It's fairly obvious. But one thing I'm comfortable saying now, especially after President Trump's speech on Thursday night, which everyone should go back and watch in full,

Don't buy the left-wing interpretation of the speech. Watch it yourself. And I'm absolutely comfortable putting this out there. There is a massive repository of foreign funds going in now to the United States to influence you through social media and elsewhere. And the influence campaign is to get you to hate this country and its institutions. The president's not kidding. I've seen it.

I've lived it. It is for real. There are a number of operations going on right now. I want to hear from nothing. You say, you don't know squad. I heard to some obese comedian yesterday. Like, again, typical like moron D-bag who doesn't know anything about it. You have no idea what's going on behind scenes.

It's a very organized effort to try and stop some of this. You're starting to hear about it more now. I'm sorry, I didn't mean a drag it. Here's a clip yesterday from Fox. It's not just Russia and China. This is also coming from communist proxy countries as well, communist institutions in Cuba as well. Check this out.

I think ICAP, the People's Forum, Democratic Socialists of America, National Lawyers Guild, national network on Cuba. It's one thing to say that the Cuban regime poses a national security threat to the United States, something you and the secretary say all the time. It is another to say they're actually interfering

or trying to interfere, in the U.S. political system? Well, the national network on Cuba, for example, issued a rapid response plan calling for agitation and resistance, publishing the location of ice facilities of military installations. That gives one powerful example of this network. We also see from Cuban-linked groups, we're seeing fomentation of protests and other violent activity, and then we see other Cuban-linked groups then bail those that are in jail for violent activity, bail them out of prison to release them back onto American streets.

This report details a decades-long influence and espionage campaign that continues to this day and really is an untold story. It's a story where we hear bits and pieces here and there, but presents this as the network that it is linked to the Cuban regime, both ideologically through logistical support, and as the nexus, the node of a network of far-left extremism that is undermining the security of the United States of America. That was Tommy Pigget, Marco Rubio's spokesperson at the State Department. You think Rubio's making that up?

Folks, let me ask you again for the nothing is happening debags out there, anti-American dipshits, who are either too stupid or too ignorant to understand. Tommy Piggett says something right there. They launched this now. The timing is not accidental. And did you notice what he said? Justin, he said it was an untold story. Why was the story untold?

Because communists, liberals, and progressives inside prior. Democratic administrations and probably establishment Republican administrations were just uncomfortable putting it out there because they just didn't want you to know because some of their common goals were to take down the United States even though they were part of it. It took a lot of work to uncover some of this stuff. They don't just say I'm an influence op. You don't get a paid partnership thing under a foreign influence op. It took work to do that.

And it's going to take work to dismantle it. It's never going to stop. Foreign enemies of the United States have been doing this for a very important. a long time to promote the unholy alliance. But again, I get tired of hearing from losers who never sacrificed the single effing thing in their entire lives, eating their freaking ho-hos and ding-dongs, talking about what everyone else who actually did did. And they don't even know about it.

There's a reason this is all coming out. It's not an accident. They are trying to break up desperately. The president, Marco Rubio, the administration, the FBI, the agency, and elsewhere. are desperately trying to break up and fight back against these just mammoth-like effort by foreign countries to get us to implode from the inside. There is so much money and so many people

who've been advertently and inadvertently borrowed off. You've seen it. They work through surrogates sometimes. You think you're doing, you're in whatever, podcast to stand or whatever. And you get a solicitation from whatever, Americafirst. And they're like, hey, can you promote?

You don't realize some of it's a proxy for a foreign operation. It's happened over and over. This stuff is real because they want to promote these foreign governments, the disintegration from the inside, and the best way to do it is to promote the unholy alliance of the liberal communist left and the Islamof fanatics. There's no better example of this than Linda Sarsour. You may know the name. I think the woman's insane.

I think her ideas are crazy. but I want you to listen to this clip, how she makes this sound so wonderful. They are very, very good at organizing. This unholy alliance of Islamo fanatics and progressive communists are extremely good at organizing. They're winning races everywhere.

Don't just think it's a New York thing. Colorado, the potential race in Arizona today. They may, Arizona, they are very good at organizing. Check this out. This is the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. This is quote-unquote America's birthday. And the question historically is going to be,

what were we doing on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence? Do we have the audacity to sit around and say that we want to build a document that is our values and our principles and bring millions of Americans around it? And so I see people on the streets. I see mutual aid efforts. I see young people running for office. I see people of color marginalized people getting up and saying, I'm the leader that I've been waiting for and seeing people rally. around those leaders. And so don't give up hope, folks. There's more to come. We're going to survive this. And some of us are going to be on the fight back. And some of us are going to be on the other side waiting to catch you when we win because there got to be other people that are going to be building the thing

that you're going to come to once we win this fight back because we will win, my friend. Hat tip at Canary Mission, great follow on X for exposing this stuff, the canary in the coal mine. Did you catch what she said there? Folks, why is this seemingly milked, If you don't play close attention, why am I putting it on the show? Because it's not milk toast at all. This is burnt toast. What did she say there? There's this battle going on and when we win and get rid of this old stuff and what's the old

stuff she references? Justin brought up a good point. He says, at least she knows the 250th anniversary. She may have just looked it up on Gemini. She's talking about the Declaration of Independence and basically moving. on in a new fight. Moving on from what? The declaration of inalienable rights for every child of God. Move on to what? A tyrannical Islamo fanatic regime where the infidels are killed. Explain what exactly. What exactly in specifics you're talking about? You see the Islamo nuts and the progressive commies, how they're both

spouting the same talking points. And say that we want to build a document that is our values and our principles and bring millions of Americans around it. A new document. A new document. What exactly is that document? Is it the Quran or something? Because that's not the kind of document like we're looking to build a governing system

on. Listen to brother Dan. the unholy alliance is real. And if you're one of these people who got emotional about it and you just fell in the trap, there's still time to repent and save yourself, your kids in your country. By the way, folks, I'm not dicking around when I tell you this.

I say this to Democrats who understand that we may have a different set of ideas on the Second Amendment and taxes. I get it. Maybe I can't convince you. But I hope I can convince you to this, that these people in your party are coming after you next. You think Linda Sarsour and the people there, part of this unholy alliance, are going to leave you out of it if you don't subscribe fully to their agenda? Again, put the crack rock down. Crack is whack.

And then you've got the hijacking of our education system. So you basically have liberal progressive commies, Islamof fanatics, you have the left-wing media that covers for them with people like Don Lemon, and others. And then you have the education system K through 12 right now and beyond, fully indoctrinating our kids to ignore facts and believe socializing is socialism. Why do they believe that? Because you've got the head of the teachers union. These are the people, some of them. I thank you to the great teachers out there. I'm not stereotyping all of you. So I refuse to accept that. I've always spoke positively of great teachers in my life. But to the ones pumping left-wing syrup of Ipecac down our children's throats,

you are part of the problem. Matter of fact, you are the problem. Listen to this lunatic, Randy Weingard, the single most destructive educational figure in modern American history. She has destroyed countless lives. Listen to who are the rantings and ravings of a lunatic. And now you see why idiots like that DSA guy believe socializing is socialism. Check this out.

approach us together, to vote together, to act together to bring about change, real, lasting, life, improving change. That is the power and potential of our movement and of the AFT. That lady's educating your kids, man. Folks, you've got those four legs on that stool. Dangerous. The commies. the Islamo Nazis, the media, the corrupted education system. I don't want you to be pessimistic.

We will fight back and we are. We now have, with the democratization of the internet, we have a bevy of tools to fight back. I don't want you to sit there depressed. But we're going to talk in a minute with Dr. Bill McLeigh about the revolutionary generation what they want to. The sacrifices were asked are small. You'll get into some Twitter fights and things like that,

maybe a back and forth with your neighbor once and a while about how Obama sucked or something like that. That is a small price to pay to try to survive the winter in Valley Forge with no shoes, eating like shoe leather and pigeons or rats, whatever lived. Folks, I haven't brought up the nothing is happening file in a long time. However, I do want to bring this up because, again, you got domer's and grifters and bums and losers who never do a single thing, sacrifice for their country at all. All they do is talk shit on the internet all day.

I really do laugh at these people. I'm not kidding. Like I snicker at it. That's why I don't sit here on the show and over-explain everything. However, we brought the World Cup to the United States. It was a tremendous success. But it was a security nightmare. Cash did an interesting interview with Fox.

Encourage you to read it. Because I saw a bunch of people like, oh, my gosh, I'd rather be, as if the other thing isn't happening too. They know that. They're just being dickheads. But the fact that the United States pulled this off and showcased the greatness of America to the world. Throw up that article for you, but,

And there were no significant terror attacks or security incidents is incredible. We haven't used this one in a while. We're adding to the nothing that's happening. I was wondering, I'm like, why is he made a? Patel details how the agency and partners secured record-shattering FIFA World Cup. Big hat tip to the Secret Service as well in all the partner agencies. It wasn't exclusively by any stretch in FBI operation. Secret Service did a great job.

locals did. But folks, this is the United States. You should be proud. Not that anybody deserves like endless backslaps over it, but they pulled off basically 78 Super Bowls. Everybody came here and loved it. And it's our job to do that. If you pay the federal government, state, local, tribal, territorial law enforcement agencies to keep everything secure. I always said in the Secret Service, it's a thankless job because no one ever says, hey, thanks for keeping the president alive. And that's okay. It's the way it should be. But I think it's worth noting that President Trump wanted this, he wants it again, and we can do it like no one else. So good job from them.

And I saw some people like whining about it. I'm like, ah, the Dumers and Grifters, I'm just so, it's just so useless to listen to these assholes. Guys who've never done a single freaking thing in their lives are sacrificed one moment of their time. They wouldn't give up their show. They wouldn't give up a dollar to go do it. It's embarrassing.

Really, go sit with mommy. Let's roast your s'mores and eat your hot pockets in the basement. Let the adults handle this. All right, I'm going to take a quick break here. We got to do the comment of the day first. Take a quick break. Man, I need you to please check this interview out. Folks, it's about 15 minutes long.

It is so worth your time, Dr. Bill McLeigh from Hillsdale. Just talking about how the revolutionary generation were legit badasses. I'm not writing a script for an Amazon Prime show. I'm just telling you it's true. These people who hate our country, I don't think you understand how we got here. It's an incredible story. unlikely. You know the rules for our Bongino 1776 club? All you got to do is join the show live. Make a comment. If we pick your comment, we're giving away a $1,776 prize to somebody

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Dr. Bill, welcome to the show. it's so great to have you. It's great to be with you, Dan. So you understand being a professor of history that this country, we've been blessed. There's no dispute. Who you believe blessed is up to you, but we've been blessed.

But one of the current debates going on right now it's gotten really hot, especially amongst the younger generation, is this socialism versus free markets and capitalism debate. I just look at this transactionally and analytically. I try not to get emotional about it. And I ask people,

can you give me a successful example of socialism where the government owns and controls the means of production in the economy that has ever worked because I can give you a ton of examples of free markets, you know, America and elsewhere, where that's worked just exceptionally. There don't seem to be any good examples of socialism yet the ideology persists. Yeah, funny thing about that. Well, I mean, I think that the people who were drawn to socialism and to the siren song of Beer Bernie Andrews and Elizabeth Warren and lesser figures like the new mayor of the current mayor of New York and so on. They don't know any history. They don't know any current events. They don't really know

that even Sweden is moving away from socialist policies that have been bankrupting them. And so the trend line around the world are people who've actually experienced socialism is always towards tyranny and then the collapse of the regimes. So, you know, I think there's maybe a special moment right now that we have, we're actually very prosperous, that the economy is doing as well as ever, you know, and I don't think that when the president talks about it in the superlative terms he likes to use, you know, that he's far off from the truth. It's a really good time for a lot of things and they're getting better as we get more energy independent and solve some of the world's problems. But young people who are having a hard time, especially college graduates,

they're hard time launching in life and their expectations are unrealistic. You know, when I came out of college, it was the 70s, very bad time. economically speaking. And I, you know, I had to kind of make my way for a few years. And it's, it doesn't kill you to take a, take a job that's below what your skill set would determine, unless you have a major in women's studies or gender studies, in which case you sort of deserve what you get. But it, you know, there's that sense that you can't just sort of walk into a really great white-collar job. that pays six figures is coming because you went to a prestigious college.

That dies hard for a lot of people, especially when they moved to New York after they graduate and discover that they're paying 10 times the amount in rent that they paid in their hometown and they can't meet their expenses. Socialism is a charmer in the sense that it offers an answer to this. We have an inequitable distribution. of wealth because really smart, ambitious entrepreneurial people like Elon Musk and immigrant have made fantastic fortunes creating things that people want and that perform important functions in our economy, in the world's economy. So they deserve the wealth that comes to them from

their inventiveness, from their persuasiveness, their persistence, their innovation. And on the one hand, you know, I'm a Harvard major in gender studies. You know, the world sort of owes me something. Right. And get a guaranteed job. And I think it's a hard fall for a lot of this generation to see the reality of what in a very rapidly changing job market. And who knows what AI is going to do to a lot of the world. these white-collar jobs that may not need to have human beings filling them. So it's scary and, you know, the idea that we could just sort of stop things and redistribute all of this fantastic, this disparity of wealth is appealing. What they never take into account

is the inevitable human corruption that comes when you have agencies of government redistributing wealth and it becomes violent it becomes repressive it becomes oppressive it ultimately squelches the creative energies of an economy and we have chapter and verse on the history of this in a variety of countries in a variety of time periods look even latin america is going free market. Across the board, I mean, there's just a few holdouts in Latin America. Nicaragua, Nicaragua being one of them, where they're now canceling, this is what happens with socialism every time,

Ortega is canceling presidential elections because, God forbid, you know, people have a vote, they won't vote to forfeit their own liberty. But I do, I want to get to, I want to make sure we get to the good news here. So this is really important. We're talking about the bad news, the rise of the, you know, current rise of socialism and the incredible marketing ability of these lunatics who keep promoting this failed ideology. But it is the 250th anniversary of the power of free markets, liberty, you know, when in the course of human events and we the people are great founding documents.

It's such a binary. I mean, we've only been around for 250 years, which you know as a professor of history is not a long time. China measures that in multiples. I mean, you have countries in Europe up to four or five, ten times as long as we have. And yet, we're number one. There's no disputing that. GDP, military power, global dominance, we're number one. But there was no guarantee in the beginning, Dr. Bill, that this was going to happen. We should never have won the Revolutionary War.

If you were better on draft kings or like one of these prediction platforms, we were probably a thousand to one odds we would lose the Revolutionary War to the powerful British Empire with their Navy. and in the war of 1812, the odds were probably just a little bit less, and yet we're still here. Oh, yeah, 1812, that was a crazy thing for us to do, and we got out by the skin of our teeth. But, no, look, and I think you mentioned before the aspect of divine intervention here. Let me say this about the revolution, that I think one of the reasons we have been so secure, is that we are the first nation in human history

to enshrine in one of our foundational documents, the Declaration of Independence, the biblical idea that man is made in the image of God. And that's present implicitly in the Declaration of Independence. All men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, which means unalienable means you can't even give them away. them away. It is what you are. They're part of our essential nature is to have these rights.

I think this comes very close to one of the ways that you can understand the idea that we're made in the image of God, which is in the book of Genesis. And it's a base of Jewish and Christian understanding of human anthropology. So there you go. At the very beginning, at the very outset of American history, you have this statement about our fundamental quality in the eyes of God and are being endowed with rights that no one can take away, no one can even give away. They're inherent in our created nature. That's very powerful.

And as you say, it is a basis for individual liberty, individual dignity, the dignity of the human person, the dignity of all life, which is crashing all around us in Canada, in Europe, up, you know, New York City is also apparently going for an assisted suicide bill, which they call medical assistance in dying. I talk about a euphemism. So we have stood for the dignity of life, of human life, of individual human life, and that's right from the beginning. So that would be a reason for Providence, as George Washington, he'd never like

to say God, he always like to say Providence with a capital T, just smile on us because we have stood for the utmost in human dignity at a real juncture in American history, in world history, in human history. 1776 is a moment in human history that we should cherish, not just we Americans, because it's a breakthrough. And I don't think people who just, who just casually follow history. No, you know, it's not full. People are busy. They're not going to sit, you know,

people are raising their kids and working. I understand that. Everybody has the time. And I'm just obsessed with this topic. I'm not sure people grasp how life changing and game changing, the idea of individual, unalienable rights was. The idea before that had not only been, you know, it was every.

It was unanimous. The thought was that some king or some, you know, dictator was, was, was, was, was, was, was, was, was, was, was, was, was, was, was, was, that was. And his family lineage had some special Avenger powers like the Marvel movies and that you were his subjects. That was just accepted as common thought. So the idea that the, the, the, the, what we would call the average common man. I don't mean that a qualitatively bad way, but everyone was born with the same exact big our God given rights as the king was. was revolutionary. Like this was considered like insane.

King George was probably laughing at us. Like, look at these idiots. Consent to the government. What a bunch of morons. And we got the last laugh in that one. Well, and you know, there are people even then who interpreted the words of the Declaration narrowly as the saying just not that all men are created equal,

which is what it actually says, but that American Englishmen are the equivalent of English Englishmen. You know, because in some ways the revolution was about American colonists saying, you're not going to take away our rights as Englishmen in order to sort of reconstitute the British Empire. You know, you can't do this. We've governed ourselves for 150 years.

That's one thing people don't take into account is how long colonies like Virginia and Massachusetts had been running and having their own legislatures, which delivered their own taxes and and basically they were free of the interference of parliament and the king and then after the french and indian war things changed and uh it just wasn't possible i actually try to give the british a fair shake when i teach this stuff at hillsdale college because there's a tendency for everybody to be patriots you know but they they did have a problem they were way in debt of they had spent a lot of money a ton of money trying to defend their british North American colonies and their British Empire, which they now had was expanded because

of the outrageous success of the war against the French. And they had to do something to get the colonies to in some way contribute to the general sort of operating funds of the empire. What they did was extremely clumsy. I think it could have possibly, somebody should write a book about this, I haven't, but it could have been done in a better way, even without the connectivity that we have today, even with an ocean separating. But it wasn't done in a skillful way. And every step that was taken aggravated the problem until the colonists came to conclusion. Reluctantly, in many cases, they came to conclusion they had to separate that.

That was the only solution. But the war itself, you're right, it was, you know, there's a saying baseball, baseball is a game of inches. Oh, I love this part. This is my favorite part. Yeah. I know where you're going with this. Even before, you know, we had challenges and instant replay, which I think have been a mixed blessing.

But, well, history's a game of inches. And it's not just the famous Cleopatra's nose if it had been inches longer, she would have been so attractive and then blah, blah, blah. There's a lot of close calls. In George Washington, one of the biggest things he did, it doesn't get a lot of credit for this, is simply holding the army together during this war. We were at war from 1775, April 1775 on,

but by the time that said Christmas of 1776 rolled around, we were on the defensive, we were losing every battle. The British were just over one. even the day the declaration, the actual declaration of independence, not the document, but July 2nd, the British were landing a huge force at Staten Island and they were going to just overwhelm us. So it was that day that Washington, Christmas Day, 1776, Washington ordered the crossing the Delaware, the attack in the early morning hours of the the Hesians at Trenton.

And that was a win. That was a win for a glorious win for us, a gutsy win under the circumstances. But he had, by the time the winter came into full, you know, full bloom by the early 77, his troops were deserting. They were dying off. And Valley Forge was later,

but it's another instance where he was in danger of losing the army. He'd go into months where he had only 3,000 men. And then he'd tend them to re-enlist. Washington did things like he had, this just seems so crazy, but I think you will get this. There was a play about the life of Cato, the elder,

and a lot of people even just come. common people were familiar with the classics at that time. And Cato the Elder was trying to defend the Roman Republic against the empire, you know, to the small scale human rights, the orientation of the Roman Republic. And they lost, and he ended up committing suicide. But he gave these wonderful speeches about the nobility of freedom. And this play, which is written by a British guy named Joseph. of Addison was he put on performance for his sick, dying, ill-clad, hungry, malnourished troops.

And it inspired them to keep on fighting. That tells you something about Washington, but also about his men. Who would think of doing that, like showing a top gun to... Right, right, right, right. No, it's a good point, though, Dr. McCle. Dr. Bill McLeigh, professor of history at Hillsdale College. But it's a great point. I really think, I mean, it's almost axiomatic to say the public school systems failed

our genera. I mean, we get that by the reading and math. But on history, I'll tell you, Doc, we blown it. I mean, we learn what George Washington, all I remember being, it was like a cherry tree ster. Like, that is the least, that's the most ridiculous. Who cares? Washington, I think when you full spectrum analyze, George Washington, you have to take into

account the good and the bad and the good far, far. I mean, more than maybe any other founding fathers outweighs the bad. But you have to take into account that Washington was ruthless. I mean, he would, they would hang deserters. I mean, he had no choice. The whole army would have abandoned him. I mean, when you look at the Battle of Trenton, you know, the famous, the, you know, iconic painting of Washington Cross and the Delaware, that was guerrilla war. That wasn't the old, you know, British Empire, what they were used. It was the Hessians, but you know what they were? You line up, shoot, Doc, the other guy shoots.

This was early guerrilla war. Like, these early revolutionaries in today's terms were pretty badass. No, they were, definitely. And, you know, this is one of the things that Washington said numerous times. Well, you know, yeah, we're not the equal of British regulars, as they didn't call them red coats. They called them regulars. But we know things that they don't know.

And we have sharpshooters that are the, better than theirs and, you know, it, yeah, we had advantages. We were playing on the home field, for one thing, that's always an advantage. But we had a tactical superiority, which was evident, by the way, in the French and Indian War. The British were so arrogant towards their American compadres that they didn't pick up on this.

But in Washington, there's a new movie out, I have not seen, maybe you have called Young Washington that I've heard really good things about it. about his experience in the French and Indian War. And I can't wait to see it because apparently it's a pretty accurate rendering of that. And he was a very young man, but he was a tough ombre. You know, and he went through some bad stuff. He was captured, you know, and at one point he was sort of blamed for all these troubles

and he just kind of cut through it. He was... He surrendered at a full necessity and was beat up pretty bad for that. Yeah. And he learned a ton from it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. By the time he was commander chief of the Continental Army,

at the time of the Revolution, he knew what he was doing. And, you know, there's this great moment where he shows up, they call the Second Continental Congress. And he shows up wearing his military uniform. Right, right. Which is especially designed as buff and blue, and it's very striking. And, you know, nobody else is there wearing a military uniform.

And he's all but same. And he was a big guy. He was an imposing figure. He was a, for that time, he was like the Shaquille O'Neal of that time. He was huge. Yeah, he was, I believe he was six, too. But, you know, you consider that like James Madison was just a little over five feet, you know. He powered over.

and John Adams similarly, very short guy, he said, no, he had a big chest. He was, you know, he was extremely, he was bitted for the role. But he's sort of saying, I'm your guy. I'm, and I volunteer, he made one condition that he didn't accept any pay for the job. Amazing.

Which, and I'll tell you one other thing. You talked about George the third laughing at him. Well, the table is turned. on that and when it was reported to George III by a guy who was doing Benjamin West an American who was doing his portrait George III's portrait said that Washington had resigned his commission which he did in Annapolis he resigned his commission as commander-in-chief to return to his farm in Mount Vernon George the third said well you know if that's true he's the

greatest character of the age. It's my favorite quote, possibly of all time. Yeah. And they couldn't understand that. The relinquishing of power was such a foreign thought to a monarch that he couldn't process that the most powerful man in America, who by the way could have been a king if we want, Joy, if there was going to be a king in the United States, George Washington was king.

And he would have probably won popular king approval at about 80% of the vote. And he refused it. He was actually a reluctant president, too. But he just refused it, and King George couldn't understand that. No, and a lot of people couldn't understand it. I mean, yes, he was a true blue Republican. I mean, the small R Republican, but he believed that the people should rule, not monarchs. And that's something that most of the founders were agreed about.

Jefferson, to go back to your earlier comments, Jefferson has one of his last letters He wrote to somebody about how the world is awakening to the capacity of man and is no longer accepts the idea. I'm just paraphrasing here. I should memorize the quote because it's so good. They rejected the idea that some are born booted and spurred to ride the backs of other men. In other words, that there is a natural aristocratic order, a natural, order of people who are born to rule over others. And he said, we rejected that idea.

All men are created equal. All men are created equal endowed by their creator, not by government. It's an interesting difference between our declaration and the French Declaration, the French Declaration, which Jefferson actually had some influence on, but it says that power comes from the nation. We don't say that.

We say it comes from God. So there's an appeal to heaven, as John Locke would say, there's an appeal to heaven inherent in the Declaration. It depends that you're not going to find in the French document. And it still does not seem our rights as natural, as inherent, as inborn, as deposit of the creator. And Dr. Bill, I got to run, unfortunately. Unfortunately, I'm running out of time.

The only reason I wanted to wrap it up here is because this actually ties into how we open the show on the socialism versus freedom and liberty debate. Because I believe that this modern iteration of the same failed idea is ironically a leftover almost caricature of the European costume aristocracy. We tried to leave behind the United States where you were born in. into some cast or class system, like you just said, the Harvard Women Studies guy. No, I was born into this class.

No, no, you're not born into any class. This is the United States. You're born into the US citizen class. And that's the irony of the whole thing on our 250th, that everything we tried to escape is being, again, regurgitated under a new marketing scheme. But this is everything, everything we got away from. So I'm out of time, unfortunately.

But I would love to do. go on that. I know. We can go on and I tell you what. I think during the, can I just mention one thing that yeah, please, I got about a minute. How the EU invalidated the election in Romania. That was this raw display of democracy doesn't matter when it contradicts the intentions of the EU. Yeah, like we just said, Nicaragua. You're really on to something with this. Yeah, Nicaragua too. I mean, yeah, it's not Europe. Obviously, However, it's the same brand of this, you know, this, you've foregone lineage thing. Like you guys, you're benighted by, you know, God.

And it's the same nonsense. Whereas we said the opposite. You all are knighted by God. He's going to put the scepter on all of your shoulders. It's a totally different idea. I'd love to do about an hour with you and all this stuff. Because every one of these, Thai didn't even get to, Shays Rebellion. You just call me.

I'm ready. All right. Dr. Bill McLeigh, Hillsdale College. Thank you so much. Really appreciate you joining us. Thank you, Dan, for everything you do and have done for our country. Oh, yes, sir.

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